DePaul announced on May 8 that it would be rolling back its mandate requiring students, faculty, and staff to be vaccinated for Covid-19. This mandate was originally put in place at the start of the 2020 global outbreak. This information was shared by the DePaul Health Community Team in direct response to the current guidance.
The inaugural Black Excellence Awards were held at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 12, at the Cortelyou Commons, where students, staff and faculty received awards for their outstanding commitment to bettering the climate of the university through service, activism and innovation. The Sankofa Black Student Formation Program hosted a black-tie celebration featuring commemorative speeches, Afrocentric.
DePaul is planning to loosen mask requirements in classrooms and labs after the second week of spring quarter. The university is requiring people to wear a mask in classrooms and labs during the first two weeks of the quarter — March 28 to April 10 — but it will become optional starting April 11, according.
This week marks the first two weeks since students could come on campus without a mask. The change came on the tide of both Chicago and Illinois dropping their respective mask mandates on Feb. 28. Chicago and Illinois as a whole have been seeing declining Covid-19 numbers, which DePaul Professor of Immunology Phillip Funk saw.
DePaul students, faculty and staff will be required to show their DePaul ID as proof of their vaccination status or exemption when eating or drinking at university indoor dining locations. This is in accordance with Chicago’s new mandate that those five years and older must show proof of Covid-19 vaccination to eat indoors, according to.